SO...we definitely hit a snag heading to London to see Winston and Maggie. I promised we would be good about keeping up so...since Saturday, our last night in the states (so we thought) we have had A LOT going on. We had a great dinner with my parents and Grant's family Saturday night in Atlanta.

We headed to Chicago from Atlanta on Sunday with all kinds of excitement to end up sitting on the plane for an hour and a half because the steering wouldn't work. That was awesome. This delay caused us to miss our flight to London from Chicago. When we got to Chicago and were told that we missed the ONLY flight with Virgin that day to London, I cried like a child. In my defense, I was tired and emotional. 

Then United (who the our flight to Chicago and caused us to miss our London flight) tried to send us to London later Sunday night, BUT Virgin would not release our ticket to United so we had to wait to leave Chicago until the next day. 

SO....THEN.....United felt bad for us. Grant would not let me near any employee of any airline as my crying turned into rage and irritation. He's a lot nicer than I am. SO he worked his patience and charm and got United to put us up in a hotel and give us a food voucher. 

SO....THEN we were fortunately put up in a nice place and I had many wines and he had many beers and then we passed out from exhaustion.

SO...finally we woke up refreshed. Went to see Inception at a nearby movie theater because we were bored and wanted to kill time. AND THEN we got to the airport, hopped on our flight and here we are in London. 

Mags took us to breakfast, we walked all over London until Grant couldn't take it anymore and here we are at Mag and Win's flat while Grant takes a much needed nap. I hope this is exciting to all. Tonight we're going to a restaurant where servers who are blind serve you "dinner in the dark". Tomorrow night it's off to Zimbabwe.

So this has not been the most relaxing of days, but this is typical. We seem to like challenges wherever we go.